{"id":150,"date":"2010-07-09T12:48:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T17:48:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-03T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T23:03:49","slug":"the_baby_formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/the_baby_formula\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baby Formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/549172406\"><em>The Baby Formula.<\/em> Dir. Alison Reid. With Megan Fahlenbock and Angela Vint. Wolfe Video, 2010. 81 min. $24.95.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0pt none initial;\" title=\"The Baby Formula\" src=\"http:\/\/thebabyformula.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/tbf_poster_websized.jpg\" alt=\"The Baby Formula\" width=\"180\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Athena and Lilith want to have a baby, and they want their child to be the biological child of both women. Luckily, Athena works in a scientific research lab where biologists have managed to fertilize one female mouse with another female mouse&#8217;s eggs. After cajoling one of the scientists into secretly performing the procedure on them, Athena is impregnated by Lilith. Later, Lilith is impregnated by Athena, without Athena even knowing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this comic film staggers while juggling a variety of weighty issues on top of the main premise\u2014Alzheimmers, addiction, unaccepting parents, and pregnancy jealousy. Wasn&#8217;t the miracle of two women making one baby more than enough of a subject? The faux documentary style of the film detracts more than it adds, and doesn&#8217;t mesh with the narrative\u2014if the couple is trying to keep the scientifically suspect procedure a secret, why bring in the film crew?<\/p>\n<p>Quality comic relief is supplied by a number of supporting characters (the randy grandmother and serious scientists, specifically), but that doesn&#8217;t make up for ponderous plotline.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by, <strong>Nicole Pasini<\/strong><br \/>\nManagement Analyst &#8211; Training and Staff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baby Formula. Dir. Alison Reid. With Megan Fahlenbock and Angela Vint. Wolfe Video, 2010. 81 min. $24.95. Athena and Lilith want to have a baby, and they want their child to be the biological child of both women. Luckily, Athena works in a scientific research lab where biologists have managed to fertilize one female [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,34,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}